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Re:Farm 432 by amirmc on Thursday January 08, 2015 @07:23PM (#8859968)
> "Maybe processing the grubs/flies into something less recognizable would help, but at some point you read the ingredients and you're back at square one."

How many of the ingredients do you currently understand? Just use the latin name of the insect and no-one would notice. Given the yield, I can imagine that we'll be eating a lot of insects in the future and in many parts of the world larvae/insects are not a problem at all.

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Re:Farm 432 by dikaiosune on Thursday January 08, 2015 @11:47PM (#8860814)
"Processed protein meal" "Amino acid complex (source: ${latin name here})" "Debuggified bugs"

Lots of potential naming zaniness here. Pretty sure food scientists and marketers have this down to a...science?

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Re:Farm 432 by jengamaster on Friday January 09, 2015 @06:23AM (#8861722)
In fact, insect byproducts are already used in food production. Carmine is a red food dye made from the scales of a particular bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
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